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Tchipakkan | 1 weitere Rezension | Dec 26, 2019 |
One of her more fun series of lectures. Makes me want to see them.
 
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Tchipakkan | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 26, 2019 |
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is another entry in The Modern Scholar series. I'd read about some of them, but not all. Professor Tobin devotes two lectures each to the Pyramids of Giza, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The Walls of Babylon, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria. We also get to learn about changes to the list over the centuries.

The accompanying booklet has helpful maps, diagrams, and photographs. We get quotations from ancient authors, information on how the wonders were built (if known), and sometimes attitudes toward a wonder over time. (If, as I was, you were flabbergasted when Dr. Ben Carson referred to the Pyramids at Giza as the granaries of Joseph, you might be interested to know that was Christian belief for at least a thousand years, even if that error was corrected centuries ago.)

The probable structure of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon turned out to be nothing like what I imagined them to be. It's nice to know that the common image of the Colossus at Rhodes is incorrect (I'd wondered how people could have viewed the ruins for so long if it had been straddling two harbors.) I also enjoyed learning about the origin of two terms: 'mausoleum' and 'museum'. That giant gold and ivory statue of Zeus makes more sense now that I know how it was made.

The lectures include what happened to the various wonders that no longer exist. I grew quite angry at several long-dead individuals who destroyed them.
All in all, it's an interesting series of lectures.
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JalenV | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 5, 2018 |
I've heard the phrase 'The glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome' many times in my life, but until I listened to The Grandeur That was Rome: Roman Art and Archaeology, I didn't know where it came from. These lessons also taught me where we get the word 'palace'. It made sense.

We start out by learning about the Villanovans and the Etruscans, the first of which I hadn't even heard about. Then we get Rome from its time as a kingdom before it became a republic, then the emperors. I did enjoy listening about the changes in artistic and architectural styles over the centuries. I know the names of the Julio-Claudian dynasty thanks to both the 'I, Claudius' mini-series and the books it was based on. Lindsey Davis' Marcus Didius Falco and Flavia Albia mystery series have made it easy to keep the Flavian emperors straight. After that, only a few names such as Trajan, Hadrian, and Constantine came to mind.

These lessons group the various emperors, such as the military emperors, the Severan dynasty (raise your hand if the name of Septimius Severus made you think of J. K. Rowling's Severus Snape), etc. Constantine is the last emperor mentioned.

I also enjoyed looking at the photos in the lesson guide, which gives the web addresses of sites where one may see more.

Am I glad I checked this series out? Yes. If you like art history or are interested in ancient Rome, you might want to check it out.
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JalenV | 1 weitere Rezension | Jun 12, 2018 |

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